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Anna McNay
Art writer and researcher based in London.
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Reviews
Julia Pfeiffer: Figures of the Thinkable [30 March 2013]
Walking in to Maria Stenfors’ lofty gallery, you are currently faced by an amazing sight: a wall of clay, cracked and dessicated, barren and bare (Building the Labyrinth, 2013). It could be one of Alberto Burri’s Cretti, but Read on…
Maria Stenfors, London
27 February - 6 April 2013
Christina Mitrentse: Welcome to the Multiverse [8 February 2013]
Multiverse. Omniverse. Xenoverse. Hyperverse. These terms, and the concept they denote, have been the subject of much scientific debate for decades now, and, although no one can say how many parallel universes there actually are, nor what size, Read on…
dalla Rosa Gallery, London
8 February - 2 March 2013
Maia Spall: Shifting Shapes and Xavier’s Spires Spectacle [12 January 2013]
Walking into Xavier White’s front room gallery space is like walking into a spiritually uplifting, meditative sanctuary. In front of the vast bay windows, looking out over the heath, is an undulating landscape, draped in white, and bedecked Read on…
Xavier White's, Blackheath, London
8 December 2012 - 14 January 2013
Ian Robinson: Collections. Artist in Residence 2012 Solo Show [15 October 2012]
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.”[1] Whether one subscribes to Walter Benjamin’s view of the objects of collection as “treasure-houses of Read on…
The Muse Gallery, London
11 - 28 October 2012
Bedwyr Williams: Dear Both [11 October 2012]
As Ceri Hand’s third exhibition in London, albeit in a temporary space before moving into her permanent Fitzrovia gallery in spring 2013, she is proud to welcome Bedwyr Williams, the polymath artist-cum-stand-up-comedian who will represent Read on…
Ceri Hand Gallery, London
8 October - 3 November 2012
Rashid Johnson: Shelter [30 September 2012]
For his first solo exhibition in London, Rashid Johnson (born 1977, Chicago) has created something of a parallel universe in the South London Gallery. Known for using familiar domestic materials in his work (“hijacking the domestic,” Read on…
South London Gallery, London
28 September - 25 November 2012
Tom Pope: So It Goes [30 September 2012]
“His is the art of whimsy,” says Professor Alexander García Düttmann (Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, and Visiting Professor of Photography at the RCA), describing the capricious and Read on…
George and Jorgen, London
14 September - 5 October 2012
Pause: A Showcase of Emerging Fine Art [7 August 2012]
For just four days, a collective of fifteen recent graduates from University College Falmouth have reunited to put on a group show, Pause, at Blackall Studios, Shoreditch. Not leaving any space unused, their works cover floor and walls, reach Read on…
Blackall Studios, Shoreditch, London
5 - 8 August 2012
De-Construct/Re-Construct/We-Construct: Israeli-British experimental art project [24 July 2012]
In what is now his second international project, Israeli curator Sharon Toval has teamed up with London-based Nimrod Vardi to undertake an exciting creative experiment, in a virtual art laboratory, the physical outcome of which can now been seen Read on…
Arbeit Gallery, London
19 - 29 July 2012
Mike Meire: Economy of Attention [12 July 2012]
Mike Meiré (born 1964) is something of a polymath: art director, artist, designer, architect, photographer, curator and editor. For the past 25 years, he has been running the design agency, Meiré and Meiré, along with his Read on…
Bartha Contemporary, London
6 July - 18 August 2012
Strange Hungers [21 June 2012]
I defy you not to crack a smile or chuckle to yourself if you go to see the current exhibition, Strange Hungers, by Sadie Hennessy, at WW Gallery. Greeted by a plethora of phalluses – a series of placemats depicting volcanic eruptions Read on…
WW Gallery, London
20 June - 14 July 2012
Stephen Willats: Surfing with the Attractor [2 June 2012]
“You are in a street, any street, as you move forwards you are bombarded by a multi-sensory experience of random inputs happening at all levels simultaneously. How do I make sense of such confusion? Do I reduce those inputs to what at Read on…
South London Gallery, London
1 June - 15 July 2012
'I Love You' [26 May 2012]
What does it mean to say “I love you”? And what qualifies someone to say it? When do they know for sure that it is actually love that they are feeling, and not just strong affection, attraction, or lust? The current Read on…
Tenderpixel, London
11 May - 6 June 2012
Out of Focus: Photography [2 May 2012]
Nothing at the Saatchi Gallery is ever just about art in the traditional sense – that is, it’s never just about looking, seeing, and responding aesthetically; there’s always a conceptual element, something clever, something Read on…
Saatchi Gallery, London
25 April - 22 July 2012
Daniel Rapley: Covenant [2 February 2012]
3,116,480 characters 1,189 chapters 783,137 words 31,102 verses 66 books Such is the content of the King James Bible, first printed some 400 years ago, and now the key work in Daniel Rapley’s first solo exhibition since Read on…
Payne Shurvell, London
27 January - 3 March 2012
Philippe Pasqua: Solo Exhibition [1 February 2012]
Often described as the French Francis Bacon, Philippe Pasqua’s canvases can hardly be called as a pretty sight. The terms ‘abject’ and ‘disturbing’ have been used far more commonly, and yet there is something Read on…
Opera Gallery, London
26 January - 15 February 2012
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